The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miquelet \Miq"ue*let\ (m[i^]k"w[-e]*l[e^]t), n. [Sp. miquelete.] (Mil.) An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.
Wiktionary
n. (context military English) An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.
Wikipedia
Miquelets or Micalets ( ; ) were irregular Catalan and Valencian mountain light troops. They enjoyed a certain prominence in the wars in the Iberian Peninsula during the 17th and 18th centuries, and in peace seem to have on occasion plundered travellers.
Usage examples of "miquelet".
Blade was also an expert on such arcana as wheel locks, miquelets, the snaphaunce, and right through to such weapons as the M-16.
It did require quality flints, which were already being cut for fire starting and for two other more primitive types of striking lock, the Dutch snaphaunce locks and the Spanish miquelet locks.
One of his clubs was the Medieval Club-on fine summer afternoons in Kent they got together and had at each other with broadsword, mace, and lance-and Blade was also an expert on such arcana as wheel locks, miquelets, the snaphaunce, and right through to such weapons as the M 16.
The count de Cifuentas, at the head of the Miquelets and Catalans attached to the house of Austria, secured Tar-ragonia, Tortosa, Lerida, San-Mattheo, Gironne, and other places.
The coming of the riders had been cried before them and the way stood lined with inhabitants watching dumbly as they passed, the old women in black rebozos and the men armed with old muskets and miquelets or guns fabricated out of parts rudely let into stocks of cottonwood that had been shaped with axes like clubhouse guns for boys.
The assassins of Saint-Barthelemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of Jehu, the chevaliers of Brassard, -- behold an uprising.
Saint Bartholomew assassins, September murderers, Avignon massacres, assassins of Coligny, assassins of Madame de Lamballe, assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, companions of Jéhu, Chevaliers du Brassard, such is émeute.